* Turkey President Recep Erdogan has £139million fortune and three palaces* Wife is known for her love of luxury shopping trips and antique collecting* She caused chaos by closing a Brussels shopping centre for retail therapy* And in Warsaw she spent £37,000 on some antiques in one splurge alone - Source: The Daily Mail, London

No expense spared: Critics of the monstrous building have said it is so extravagant that it would have made Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, known for his love of gold and jewel encrusted fittings, blush

Entertaining: The tyrant and his wife in a country where two million people live of £3 a day enjoy state banquets at the state owned Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul

Decor: The building, known as the White Palace, cost more than twice the original estimate but Erdogan has dismissed criticism by saying it boosts Turkey's profile in the world

A pivotal moment for Turkey and its President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan. Where will 6,000 detainees be kept? For how long? Or, more darkly, will the law be changed to reinstall execution for treason? Mehmet Simsek, deputy Turkish PM, emphasises how unarmed civilians confronted the full force of armed military to uphold democracy. CNN's Becky Anderson was sent from Paris at short notice to interview President Erdogan. She shrewdly pointed out his use of mobile phone apps to encourage the people out in support of democracy. A fascinating situation in a country with the second largest military in NATO.

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Pita

22/7/2016 07:17:30 am

The current Fiji system was modelled after Turkey with essentially two states, one the conventional state apparatus and the other a so called "deep state" comprising a professional and secular military who ect as the conscience of the nation.
With his Hitlerite and Stslin style purges of the military, judiciary, teaching profession and public service Erdogan is destroying all counterweight to his authority and consolidating his own power. He is using the excuse of a small disorganised uprising by a faction of the military to clear the state of secularists and move his country towards an Islamic kleptocracy like pre invasion Iraq under Sadaam Hussein

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